Wall Quotes - Page 31

• Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.

  Genco Gulan

  Art, Shapes, Aesthetics

  "Concepual Colors of Genco Gulan". Book by Marcus Graf, 2011.

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• Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Indulge In, Doe, Repetition

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.

  Daniel Crevier

  Victory, Inability, Owing

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• Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

  Josh Ross

  Kids, Makeup, Years

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• Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Fashion, Sleep

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• If you will observe, it doesn't take
  A man of giant mould to make
  A giant shadow on the wall;
  And he who in our daily sight
  Seems but a figure mean and small,
  Outlined in Fame's illusive light,
  May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
  Across the canvas of his time.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Mean, Men, Light

  "Authors' Night". Poem by John Townsend Trowbridge,

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• Color is a big part of what I do. It's like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there's no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Eye, Reality, Color

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• If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

  Russell Simmons

  Break Through, Digging, Bricks

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• My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.

  Amanda Holden

  Husband, Toes, Sausage

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• The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells

  Ed Zern

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Vanity, Meditation

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.167

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• If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Book, Gun, Two

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• Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  "Values of the Wise" by Jason Merchey, (p. 200), 2004.

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• We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.

  William Faulkner

  Wisdom, Powerful, Past

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.150, Modern Library

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• I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.

  Ang Lee

  Girl, Kids, Hockey

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• Adaptation is always the same process for me, which is some version of throwing the book at the wall and seeing what pages fall out. It is trying to imagine, remember the story, read it, put it down, and then write sort of an outline without the book in front of you with some hope that what you like about it will be filtered and distilled out through your memory and then that will be similar to what other people like about it.

  Akiva Goldsman

  Memories, Book, Fall

  Source: collider.com

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• Over our history there are always those who want to take this wall of separation and remove a brick here or there or damage it more than that. I think one has to be vigilant and constantly on the alert.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Thinking, Atheism, Want

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• If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Sex, Business, Gentleman

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• If you've got a Corvette that runs into a brick wall, you know what's going to happen. He's a Corvette. I'm a brick wall.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Lakers

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• Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact, he felt so bad for them, he gave himself a $10 million sympathy bonus.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Yesterday, Frustrated, Bonus

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• I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.

  Wesley Snipes

  Character, Animal, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

  Eric Bolling

  Army, Reason, Should

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.

  Mel Brooks

  Reality, Play, People

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

  Nick Offerman

  Baby, Adults, Floating

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'

  Rose McGowan

  Believe, Shoes, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Apr 11, 2013

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